If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

I have drunk, and seen the spider."(Leontine, Act II Scene I)

Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you!

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.